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Message: <blockquote data-quote="janta" data-source="post: 1567916" data-attributes="member: 15270"><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/aug02/palio.html" target="_blank">Siena's Horse Race</a> I've got a similar campaign about to begin, though it's set in a fantasy version of Renaissance Italy, and I used this article for inspiration.  It's a pretty interesting concept -- a no-holds-barred horse race through the city streets.  I was going to mention the Cathars, but Mythmere beat me to it.  There's also the rise of protestantism at roughly this time too (I think -- my college history classes were some time ago).If you're not especially interested in realism, you could always have Atlantis rise from the ocean again.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Umm...adventures on the old Silk Road?  Maybe use some of the old travelers' journals for ideas (e.g., Ibn Battuta, and for some reason the only other thing springing to mind is the legend of Prester John).  Rumors of the Holy Grail?  I'll have to think some more about this one....--JantaEdited to add:  how about something to do with alchemy?  Perhaps an alchemist somewhere has discovered the secret of the Philosopher's Stone -- who'll get to him first?</blockquote>